Re-Launch

I'm thrilled to be writing about Spiritually Responsible Politics again and, as you can see, have re-launched the blog with this altered title.

With a month left before the election and passions stirring to overflowing, it feels to me like we could all benefit from taking a half step back, receiving a really deep breath, and connecting with the idea that when we attack others and their ideas and their motives and whatever, we are saying much more about ourselves than we are about them.

This is the idea that there's nothing really out there but reflections of us. As it says in the Talmud (I'm no scholar but I did come across this a long time ago), "we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." The concept that applies here, fundamentally, is the law of attraction. We see what we are. And so when we rail against this candidate or that one, or this supporter or the other one, it's incumbent upon us, from a spiritually responsible perspective, to recognize that whatever it is we're reacting to is alive and well in us. In one form or another. Guaranteed.

Given that the entire intention of Spiritually Responsible Politics is to elevate the public discourse, I invite you to imagine with me what our discourse will be like when enough of us understand that we broadcast information about ourselves when we engage other in political debate.

Boy this is fun.